Gooday, I have made the required changes to the package. Thank you for the valuable insight. My salsa repo: https://salsa.debian.org/mikemando/node-vue-style-loader
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 13:14, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Pirate Praveen (2022-04-01 13:18:11) > > > > > > On വ്യാ, മാർ 31 2022 at 11:22:22 രാവിലെ +0100 > > +0100, Michael Ikwuegbu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have updated the package node-vue-style-loader from version > > > (4.1.2 —> 4.1.3). > > > > > > I am requesting for sponsorship. I have made sure the package is > > > Lintian clean and built it in a clean chroot with sbuild. > > > I have pushed the current changes to my salsa repository: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/mikemando/node-vue-style-loader > > > > > > The package is available at: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-vue-style-loader > > > > > > > We should follow the years mentioned in license files > > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/mikemando/node-vue-style-loader/-/commit/4384975bd7f875a4312104d61ae0f885664f3602 > > > > We don't need to update year if upstream has not updated it. So just > > keep it 2017 or if you really wanted, you could say 2017-2022. Year in > > copyright indicates the time when it was created or modified. > > > > For files in debian directry we may update it, but not really > > required. If at all you wanted to update, you can add your name for > > 2022 and keep the previous line the same. > > I agree with the final suggestion, but feel that the previous remarks are > misleading: > > Copyright notices are messages from the copyright holders to users, and > we should only communicate that message, not alter it! > > When you write or update the debian/copyright file, then you act as > "secretary" for the owners of the project - only for files in the > debian/ directory that you created or changed yourself should you decide > on your own which years are correct. For all other notices (also those > of fellow Debian maintainers) you should only update to mirror facts > already stated elsewhere in the project. > > If you feel the need to extend or correct some statements, then add a > Comment: field describing how/why your information is different - e.g. > "No license was stated in the project, but is assumed to be the same as > https://example.com/foobar that is licensed as blabla-2.0". > > > Please also note that copyright years reflect when [original] change is > introduced (i.e. time of innovation, not time of every change, and not > time of release). > > [original]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Originality > > Generally the copyright holder decides which changes should be > considered "original". Because nowadays copyright [registration] is > automatic and main purpose of copyright [notices] have shifted to be a > reminder to users that "I made something here, so if you want to > negotiate licensing you should get in touch with me". > > [registration]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Registration > > [notices]: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice#Reasons_to_include_an_optional_copyright_notice > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -- Michael Ikwuegbu
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